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What convinced Lucian wasn't, ultimately, that Lianelle couldn't remember her past. Sure, it was suspicious how all of her connections to anyone besides May had been cut or weakened, but that was only enough to push Lianelle so far. What convinced him that May was mind controlling his friend was Lianelle's lack of interest in being anywhere but by May's side. Lianelle didn't do that for anyone. She loved Katia with an intensity Lucian had hardly seen in any marriage, but she'd only visit Quiteria for a week at a time - never staying unless it was urgently required. When armies had been raised to fight the Magyar Lianelle had been there, but even then she'd ride off alone often, returning with news about how one village or another was now free. Seeing her relegated to a bodyguard and lover of someone she'd just met, with no apparent intention to ever leave, was... wrong. It wasn't Lianelle.
And so, this is how Lucian finds himself digging a hole in an unremarkable forest in west Austria. Well, digging several holes - the landscape's changed enough in the last 1200 years that it's difficult to locate the exact spot where he and his men, victorious but weary, buried the Magyar's artifacts that they could not understand the purpose of.
Her schedule is pretty open what with how she lives in a world where she has no ongoing projects so she can do a cool thing about once a week, so sure!
"That's not really the level on which I have a problem with you waving a sword at me and my boyfriend and my houseguests during our board game night but we don't have to get into it. Buh-bye."
"About, what, being a legend-based amended copy of the historical Lianelle? Yeah! I don't know what I'd be feeling in your position either."
"I think it's not just legend and that my - her - personality and memories were changed to make me a better champion for my summoner."
One year if she wants Lianelle to never have any leash, a day to allow Lianelle to range wherever she wants for a month, and three times that for interworld.
Does the cost scale proportionally, like, can she buy Lianelle six hours for twelve minutes?
"Getting you time to go do stuff by yourself isn't that expensive per hour. I can buy you time to go do a dungeon as long as it's not four-dimensional - that's harder because it's farther away - without me along, while I'm visiting my parents and Cricket so we're in the right world to go into a dungeon from in the first place, and it'll cost less than the time I spend visiting them does in lost magic absorption. Easily worth it. If you have something else in mind the cost goes up proportionally and getting you free of the range limit forever would cost a whole year of absorption. Fifty-two resurrections."